Articles Posted in Personal Injury

Apparently, questions about the authenticity of taco meat aren’t the only thing fast food joints have to worry about. The Bisnar Chase Personal Injury Attorneys Los Angeles wrongful death lawyers are giving them a run for their money, obtaining a very substantial settlement to compensate for a premises liability victim’s death. With a little luck, this lawsuit will help fast-food restaurants go the extra mile to keep their consumers safe whilst on their property, at least when it comes to their handrails.

It wasn’t that long ago when the victim decided to visit this recently built Del Taco. Having been restricted to a wheelchair, her son was accompanying her down the wheelchair ramp to leave when they were suddenly struck by disaster. The lack of handrails and a sharp drop off to the parking lot–not visible from her son’s vantage point–prevented her son from properly negotiating the ramp and she fell out of her wheelchair.
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The lawyers of Bisnar Chase Personal Injury Attorneys have a new section on their website called The Law Library. In The Law Library, visitors can peruse titles that offer different kinds of legal advice and information. The best part of The Law Library? All of the books are free!

Brian Chase’s “Still Unsafe at Any Speed: Auto Defects That Cause Wrongful Deaths and Catastrophic Injuries” gives readers the often unknown details of auto defects and the way they can affect peoples’ lives. Complete with accounts from victims of auto defect disasters, Chase’s book can help consumers considering vehicles for purchase as well as people who may be dealing with liability claims.

The Law Library offers other books that deal with motor vehicle accidents as well, including “The Ten Biggest Mistakes That Can Wreck Your Washington Accident Case,” “Washington Injury Law: A Reference Guide for Accident Victims” and “7 Potholes That Can Wreck Your Kentucky Accident Case.” These books discuss the problems that consumers and victims of car accidents encounter when trying to seek a fair resolution after an accident.
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The California personal injury law firm, Bisnar Chase Personal Injury Attorneys, represented an Azusa Pacific University student who was injured in February of 2008 because of conditions of dangerous public property and motor vehicle negligence on her school campus. Bisnar Chase Personal Injury Attorneys has recently announced that the student, Julie Farris, was awarded $1.5 million after suffering a severe, permanent brain injury because of the accident. The law suit was filed against the City of Azusa, Azusa Pacific University, and the driver of a school-funded trolley who collided with Julie while she was riding her bicycle on campus.
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Consumer protection attorneys are somewhat like caped crusaders. They protect the interests of the masses. They are the class action attorneys. They file legal suits on behalf of the many, not just the individual. They do it with very little fanfare. Class action suits are about stopping corporate greed and practices that harm us. Bisnar Chase Personal Injury Attorneys supports the Public Justice Foundation and its efforts to preserve the class action lawsuit.

Think what would happen if corporate giants like AT&T, Verizon, BP Oil, Wells Fargo, AIG, and Bank of America were able to avoid class action litigation. Individuals could not challenge these corporate giants on their own. It is only by virtue of the availability of the class action suit and the attorneys that are willing to handle such cases that we can keep a check on large corporate giants whose practices may take advantage of the average person.
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Newport Beach personal injury law firm Bisnar Chase Personal Injury Attorneys is helping to get the word out about an interesting opportunity for young people: The Viral Video Scholarship Contest.

In a time where thousands of people are injured or killed in car accidents every year, the video contest employs the creativity of young people to promote safer driving habits among the high school and college student age group. The need for improved driving in this age group is especially important since, according to SWITRS statistics, people aged 15-24 suffered 801 car accident deaths in California in 2008 — the highest of any age group.
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Ten people were injured in an amusement park accident the night of October 7, 2010 when one of the rides broke down and caused a collision between two sets of cars. According to a news report in The Orange County Register, the injury accident happened in Knott’s Berry Farm on its $9 million Pony Express ride. Riders race here along a 1,300-foot track on a train of horses, getting up to speeds of 38 mph before taking sharply angled turns and a 44-foot drop.

The ride apparently malfunctioned when a train of ponies with nine people failed to get up to speed and drifted backward to the loading station. It then hit another set of cars, just as one person prepared to board. Officials with the Department of Occupational Safety and Health are looking into whether there was a failure in the brakes of the first train. Ten people were taken to the hospital with injuries, but none of those injuries are believed to be major or life-threatening.
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